Re: Ascii file from FTP

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Emanuele
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 2:27 pm, Emanuele Salvador wrote:
> I need to convert on my Linux box some ASCII files retrieved with FTP
> from an AS400 from fixed width to tab delimited text.
> Has anybody some experience with sed or awk to do so? Or is there a way
> (aside from CA transfer) to accomplish this task?
> Thanks in advance and excuse my poor english,
>
> Emanuele Salvador
> Consorzio Florida Servizi

Are you able to have the files generated in a different format on the AS/400 
in the first place? What I mean is, are they created as ascii files for your 
benefit, ready for ftp-ing. There are a few options for converting DB2/400 
files to streamfiles in various formats using the CPYTOIMPF command. If you 
get them as .csv files you can use the tr command to convert to your required 
format along the lines of 
$ tr ',' '\t' < file.csv > file.tab
as I just discovered (had to convert a strange tab delimted file to .csv 
format). Unfortunately I've not (yet) any experience of sed or awk :-( 

I do have a .csv file generator tool[1] that could be tweaked into generating 
the appropriate tab format if you are interested. The closest I've come to CA 
functionality is to use my CRTCSVDTA utility in conjuction with the RUNRMTCMD 
to get the rexecd server on my linux box pull the file from the IFS and open 
it up on my desktop.  

> end user v. A command regrettably not implemented in most operating
> systems.

PWRDWNUSR ? :-)

Regards, Martin
[1] http://www.dbg400.net/crtcsv.html
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